Voices: ‘I’ll be holidaying outside the EU’: Readers lament as new post-Brexit border checks come into force

Britons heading to Europe are being warned to pack extra patience – as the EU’s long-delayed Entry/Exit System (EES) finally launches, threatening four-hour queues, new fingerprint checks and a £400m hit to the UK economy.

Many Independent readers were quick to point out that the UK helped design EES, accusing the government of hypocrisy and reaping what it sowed.